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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

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If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?
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Feminism Right Talk Women
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
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One Liner Powerful Truth
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
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Death Home Myself Stars
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
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Born God Man Religious Woman
What we give to the poor, we lend to the Lord.
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Generosity God Poor
It is the mind that makes the body.
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Body Mindset One Liner Positive Power
I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….
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Day Myself Run Walk
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.
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Myself Old Responsibility Talk
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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Deal Equality Greatness Man Myself Oppression Pay Woman Work
Truth burns up error.
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Error One Liner Truth
I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest–if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.
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Beautiful Death Different Need See Time Vote Yourself
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
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Better Feeling Give Up Ourselves Right Thinking Yourself
I am above eighty years old … I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.
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Age Myself Right Talk Woman
I don’t read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can’t see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!
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Ideas Myself Nation Reading See Vote
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
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Oneself Poor Rich Rob
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?
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Help Man Myself Need Place Woman

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

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When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

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